Are (micro)plastics the Great Filter solution to the Fermi Paradox?
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resolved Sep 27
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Plastics have been around for decades, but the accumulation of degraded plastics in the environment may be accelerating, with a large source reservoir of relatively intact plastic already distributed around the biosphere.
Is the discovery and implementation of synthetic polymer chemistry the thing that dooms technologically advanced civilizations?
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